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Curated by Padmini Ray Murray, the exhibition will showcase artworks on the theme ‘Smarter Digital Realities: Tech and the Metropolis,’ through the weekend
Curated by Padmini Ray Murray, the exhibition will showcase artworks on the theme ‘Smarter Digital Realities: Tech and the Metropolis,’ through the weekend
An exhibition on the theme ‘Smarter Digital Realities: Tech and the Metropolis’ is being held by the Sandbox Collective in affiliation with the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan over the weekend in Bengaluru. This exhibition was curated by Padmini Ray Murray, founding father of Design Beku, a collective that explores how expertise and design might be decolonial, native, and moral.
Padmini, talking on the cellphone from Bengaluru, says, “Artists have examined the connection between expertise and town, and the way the previous has remodeled the latter.”
She continues, “This venture was conceived earlier than the pandemic. Nonetheless, the lockdown compelled artists and inventive practitioners to search out novelty and inspiration in on a regular basis monotony. Expertise performed an enormous position within the expertise of the pandemic, particularly within the metropolitan cities.”
This residency was initially carried out on-line, with artists in Bombay, Bangalore, Pune and Dhaka, contributing works that emerged from a couple of weeks of workshops. The ultimate works had been showcased in an internet surroundings and a sequence of on-line occasions marked the launch of the exhibition house.
A dance efficiency that addresses our identified and imagined understanding of town by Talin Subbaraya
| Picture Credit score: Particular Association
As pandemic restrictions have eased, it was determined to deliver these artworks to a bigger viewers, in a extra conventional exhibition format. The works embrace an evocative, interactive narrative on belonging within the metropolis, a glitchy immersive sonic commentary on Bengaluru nightlife, a visible meditation on the position balconies performed throughout our enforced months indoors and a collaborative venture with waste-pickers and handbook scavengers depicting the oppression of non-dominant castes within the metropolis, amongst others.
The exhibition is held on the Bangalore Worldwide Centre on March 19, 20, between 11 am and seven pm. Entry is free for all.
